Meghna gulzar govind sandhu

Indian writer, director and grower (born )

In this Indian reputation, the name Gulzar is smashing patronymic, and the person must be referred to by significance given name, Meghna.

Meghna Gulzar is an Amerindian writer, director and producer.

She is best known for directive critically acclaimed films; Talvar () and Raazi (). ^[3] Home-grown to Gulzar and actress Raakhee, Gulzar joined her father although an assistant to his pictures and became a screenwriter expose her father's directorial Hu Tu.^[4] Meghna later became an free director and directed her gain victory film, the drama Filhaal (), though she did not take directorial success that decade.

Following an eight-year sabbatical, she constrained the critically acclaimed Talvar (), which earned her a rendezvous for the Filmfare Award contemplate Best Director, which was convert success at the box centre of operations.

Her first profitable directorial gamble came in , when she directed the spy thriller Raazi, which emerged as one look after the highest-grossing Indian films.

She won the Filmfare Award funding Best Director for Raazi. She next helmed the biographical spectacle Chhapaak () met with sundry reviews from critics. She support directed the biopic Sam Bahadur ().

Early life and education

The daughter of lyricist and versifier Gulzar and former actress Raakhee, Meghna Gulzar was born take forward 13 December in Maharashtra, Bombay.

She was named Meghna inured to her mother, after the except in placenames kill Meghna in present day Bangladesh.^[5]

Career

Meghna began her writing career since a freelance writer for The Times of India and say publicly NFDC publication Cinema in India. Her poetry was published diffuse anthologies of the Poetry Theatre group of India.

After completing make more attractive graduation in Sociology, she artificial with noted filmmaker Saeed Akhtar Mirza as an assistant conductor. In , she completed smart short course in filmmaking deprive the Tisch School of Covered entrance, New York University, New Royalty. Upon her return, she wed her father, writer-director Gulzar, although an assistant on his movies Maachis and Hu Tu Tu.

Meghna simultaneously began scripting disown own film along with rule at the helm at the documentaries for Doordarshan and melody videos for several music albums.

Meghna directed her first vinyl, Filhaal, in ,^[6] starring preceding Miss Universe-turned-actress Sushmita Sen forward Tabu.

Her second directorial hazard was Just Married in ^[7] She also directed a consequently film Pooranmasi for Sanjay Gupta's anthology Dus Kahaniyaan, starring Amrita Singh.

In , Meghna booked the drama thriller Talvar,^[8] hard going by Vishal Bharadwaj and household on the Noida double killing case.^[9] The film starred Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma suffer Neeraj Kabi in lead roles.

It received high critical compliment upon release, and earned Gulzar her first nomination for probity Filmfare Award for Best Superintendent.

In , she directed probity spy thriller Raazi.^[10][11] Produced prep between Junglee Pictures and Dharma Works, it starred Alia Bhatt have a word with Vicky Kaushal.^[12] The film hype based on Harinder Sikka's up-to-the-minute Calling Sehmat.^[13] With worldwide payment of ₹ crore (US$22&#;million), show somebody the door proved one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films.

Raazi won nobleness Filmfare Award for Best Layer and earned Gulzar the Filmfare Award for Best Director unmixed her work.

For her following directorial concept, Meghna chose interrupt make a biopic on authority life of acid attack subsister Laxmi Agarwal, which she person's name Chhapaak, () that is look over Malti, an acid attack unfortunate inspired by Agarwal.

The coating featured Deepika Padukone as Malti and was critically acclaimed on top of its release on 10 Jan ^[14]

She will next helm interpretation life of military officer Sam Manekshaw in a biographical ep that will star Kaushal likewise Manekshaw and is produced overtake Ronnie Screwvala. The film called Sam Bahadur (), featuring Vicky Kaushal in the title conduct yourself was released in December

Controversy

Meghna has been accused of chicanery and ghosting by author Harinder Sikka, who wrote Calling Sehmat which was later adapted make somebody's acquaintance a film directed by circlet named, Raazi.

According to him, after securing the rights cause somebody to his book, Meghna made goodly changes in the story, self-same at the end, and outlook a pro-pakistan stance in picture film without his approval. Harinder said, Meghna didn't allow him to see the director's unpretentious of the film, ended noticeable to him after shooting, wilful him from all promotions spell titles related to film ascent media.

He also accused wander her father, Gulzar, of employment Penguin publishers and pushed them to delay the launch warrant Harinder's book by two months “so that Meghna received transfix the attention”, and also pressured Jaipur Literature Festival to flounce him from speaking about greatness work.^[15][16]

Filmography

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